It was so sad you could not watch a 30 seconds ad to revive back then. No cosmetics to buy, nothing. Just an ugly snake running around.

/s

This is what they took from us.

Same era, I used to playing games on my calculator. I suppose you still can, but I used to do it. I remember I had RISK on my TI-89, but the games on my TI-82 were on par with the version of snake shown in the post. We would even trade the games around with the kids that didn't have a computer and/or Internet at home. We'd connect them with funky little cables that looked like audio jacks.

Mistakes were made along the way.

I remember paying 3$ for a ringtone

I used to code ringtones into peoples phones in exchange for cigarettes.

Last Resort by Papa Roach was most popular followed by Better Off Alone by DJ Sammy, because they both sounded killer in twangy Nokia synth.

The fucking battery is almost empty after just three days! Just because I played Snake every break.

Now cell phone games play you.

Snake > Snake 2

You were also able to type out a message and send it using a single hand, you only needed to recharge the phone once a week, and it didn't shatter like an icicle if you so much as sneezed at it, it was cheap and it didn't spy on you. Smart phones is the dumbest thing that happened to humanity.

I still have one of these somewhere. It didn’t break but the charger did

And you could use the IR blaster to play multiplayer games.

I'm tired of the smart phones and their addictive games and whistles, just give me a phone that only does call not that "texting" BS and only one ring you cannot change !

Still have a core memory of sitting in the toilet, a long time after having finished my business, still playing snake and beating my highest score by a lot!

Everyone Nokia user knows that Space Impact was a better game than Snake